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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2017
Meps Real-time, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Jimmy C. Caputo, San Diego, CA (US);
Shariq Hussain, Vista, CA (US);
Jeffrey Shamblin, San Marcos, CA (US);
MEPS Real-Time, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Abstract
An inventory system for wirelessly taking inventories of mobile medical dispensing carts comprises an easily assemblable and disassemblable enclosure comprising interconnected electrically conductive walls to form a Faraday cage. The interior space defined by the walls is large enough to accept the mobile carts. RFID readers are placed within the enclosure directed at the mobile cart to excite and read the RFID tags disposed on the medical articles within the cart. The walls of the enclosure are flexible and one of the walls is rolled up and down to act as a door to the interior space. A host computer stores the inventory of the cart and compares it against a previous inventory existence for resupply purposes. The host computer also detects expired and recalled medical articles in the cart. If a recalled article is detected, the host computer determines if a substitute article exists.